Flashy New International Trailer For LOOPER Reveals A Little More Than It Should!

Now that we're halfway through the 2012, I can safely say that Rian Johnson's time-travel yarn LOOPER is a lock for my year-end top ten. I've already written a non-spoiler review of the film (based on an early test screening), and when I watched the below-embedded international trailer, I got all excited to watch it again. I'm confident it'll fire you up, too, but here's the problem: there are some reveals in this trailer that might slightly diminish the fun of piecing together the film as you're watching it. Johnson agrees. Here's what he had to say on Twitter earlier today.

If you're already set on seeing Looper, I'd avoid any trailers from here on out. They don't ruin the movie, but they tip a few little things that are fun to discover in the context of the movie.

He later clarified this with another tweet.

Just to clarify - I approved all the trailers, they're great an they won't ruin anything big. But the small things they tip are fun to discover in the movie.

But for those of you who are skeptical about the film, prepare to be de-skepticized!

after a fly in the lab. Goood stuff.
And I'm curious as hell to see what he does with the time travel conceit, after his turn with the con man film, The Brothers Bloom.
Brick...couldn't get into somehow.

How is time traveling gunplay original sci fi? We've seen this countless times.
And I wouldn't be so fast to call this 'sci fi.' Science fantasy, maybe, but I doubt it will earn the science fiction label--sci fi means explaining things in realistic, logical detail. I really doubt this will do any such thing with its time traveling concept.
Like I said earlier, this looks marginally better than Nic Cage's 'Next' from 2007. Best thing that can be said about it.

Not only does it give too much away, but because they chose to not give everything away in the trailer, certain scenes are cut so you only see part of what's happening, and this edit of events makes things muddy and confusing. I am 100% in agreeance with Rian on this one. Just go see this. You will love it.

The concept makes no sense. Maybe if they were sending them to ancient Rome where they've worked a deal with a slaver or some such thing but back 30 years, what's the big deal. Got to be cheaper ways to get rid of someone.

An envelope with all the particulars and the hit man takes care of it. I have not seen it yet so I don't know maybe it's like Terminator only living tissue can go back. Or send them back to 65 million BC. No one would survive long.

You send the target back because there is no body and no assassin to implicate the mobsters in the future. It benefits the assassin in the past because, if someone finds the body in the past, there is no way to match it to someone alive at that time ("John" at 55 would not be mistaken by the authorities for still living "John" at 25), and sending the targets to a remote location in the past is a good way to kill them anonymously. However, I don't see why they would send JGL's future self to be killed by his past self, or why they would send him without binding his hands/covering his face, like the other targets we saw in the trailer. Maybe that's a plot point.